After inspecting the weaving factory, Zhu Cijing did not return to the capital immediately. He agreed to accompany the two empress dowagers for a walk, so he couldn't go back after a walk. Empress Dowager Zhang and Empress Dowager Ren had been waiting in the imperial sedan chair for a long time. If he didn't accompany them to get some breath, he would probably have to eat sanitary balls for several days after returning to the palace.

In fact, Zhu Cijiu had already given instructions long before leaving, asking Wang Chengen to lead a group of eunuchs to find a beautiful place between Wuqing and the capital, make some arrangements, and wait for them to go for a trip.

Speaking of this scenery, it is easy to find north of the capital. There are the remnants of Yanshan Mountain, with mountains and waters, and the scenery is picturesque; it is difficult to find south of the capital. It is basically endless plains and there are many rivers, but there is no landform that can be called mountains. At most, you can find a small mound that is dozens of meters high.

Fortunately, the two empress dowagers just wanted to go for a green leaf, not to climb a mountain. Wang Chengen found a higher mound not far from the official road by the Yongding River. He repaired the way up a little, then found a flat place on the top of the mound, built a wooden pavilion, and then placed a table of exquisite pastries and cooked food in the pavilion. This place for going on a break is considered to be convenient.

The scenery around is pretty good, the river is clear, the grass is everywhere, and the green is everywhere, so you can step on whatever you want!

The two empress dowagers were really satisfied with the scenery here. They climbed the mound and ate something for a while, and then led Qin Mingyue around.

The guards were surrounded by the imperial guards within a few miles. Zhu Cijing was not worried about their safety. In order to avoid being ravaged by three women in turn, he hid in the pavilion because he was too tired to inspect the morning and did not go out.

On the surface, he was sitting there to appreciate the scenery around him, but in fact he was thinking about making money. There was no way, he was poor, and the money was spent just like flowing water. In the blink of an eye, he spent 20 million taels of silver. He really wanted to expand the Beijing camp, update the equipment, and then lead the army to wipe out the peasant uprising army, recover Liaodong, and kill Huang Taiji, but there was no money! The military expenditure of a 100,000 army was 3 million taels a year, which was not considered the consumption of firearms. It would be fine if swords, guns, swords and halberds were used for several years. Bullets and shells were gone after being fired. The military expenditure of an army with full heat weapons would have to double.

Just when Zhu Cijiu was worried about money, another money-spending came to his door, and the voice of the beautiful woman in the system suddenly rang in his mind again.

"Dingdong, congratulations on completing the fifth survival mission. The rewards will be issued below, and the new flintlock rifle drawings."

Zhu Cijing felt a little dizzy again, and a new set of drawings of the flintlock rifle appeared in his mind.

Before he could check it out carefully, the system beauty's voice continued:

"Dingdong, please pay attention to the new task reminder.

Your sixth survival mission: Survive in this world for a year.

Mission reward: Improved Flor Machine** paper.”

When Zhu Cijing heard this reward, he lost his previous excitement. The gun costs dozens of taels of silver. Wouldn't the cannon be more expensive? Now that he has no money, no matter how much drawings he gives him, it will be useless. If he has no money, what can he use to make weapons?

The beauty of the system naturally doesn't care whether he has money or not, and continues to remind him: "Friendly reminder: The survival mission is about to end. I'm a slutty young man, go and rewrite history. The generous honor mission rewards are waving to you."

Zhu Cijiu was speechless for a moment. It was not that easy to rewrite history. No matter how generous the rewards of the honor mission were, they had to get it.

The reward for his first glory mission can be said to be the result of the system selling and giving away half. If the system hadn't allowed his soul to travel to the Dhwai Prince Zhu Cijing who was about to die, how could he have changed history so easily and ascended to the throne?

Now to change history, it is nothing more than to deal with the peasant uprising army, defeat the Later Jin Dynasty, or dominate the world. Nothing is simple and will be impossible to do so in the short term.

He shook his head, threw all his worries out of his mind, and carefully checked the drawings of the new flintlock rifle.

First of all, the rifle must be carved inside the barrel, and the system also comes with a simple bore pulling bed, which is specially used to carve rifle.

The bore pulling bed is simple, mainly with two pistons, one pulls the barrel forward and the other makes the special drill bit rotate slowly. As long as the barrel is fixed to the piston that pulls the front and back, as soon as the switch is pressed, the bore pulls the barrel back and forth, the bore pulls the barrel automatically and moves back and forth, so that the rotating drill bit can carve rifles in the barrel.

Then the flintlock device was also changed. The medicine room was fixed behind the barrel through a buckle. As long as the buckle was broken open, the medicine room could be removed. That is to say, as long as the medicine room is prepared, the soldiers can fill the gunpowder inside before the war. At that time, just change the medicine room and the bullets are on, and you can shoot again immediately.

Finally, the bullet was changed, no longer spherical, but cylindrical, with a taper on the front end. The bullet was not stabbed in from the muzzle, but was loaded from the back. When the medicine room was taken down, press the bullet into the barrel.

It's indeed a good thing. Such a gun has a range of more than 500 meters and a killing distance of more than 300 meters. As long as you aim within 200 meters, you will almost have any bullets. The detachable medicine room and breeze loading also greatly improves the rate of fire. As long as the medicine room and bullets are sufficient, ten rounds per minute will not be a problem.

Such flintlock rifles surpass crossbows in terms of range, rate of fire, killing distance, and accuracy, and can dominate the battlefield and decide the outcome!

Things are good things, but our little emperor Zhu Cijing was not happy at all. The new flintlock rifle structure is so complex that it has to add machine tools. If you just add machine tools and don’t add people, the output will still not be increased. Just because of the one thousand people in Wanggong Factory now, it would be great to be able to make a thousand new flintlock rifles a month.

One thousand a month, only 12,000 a year. That's not the time to process a single medicine room. A gun must be equipped with ten separate medicine rooms. This way, it will take 10,000 to be made in a year. It takes at least five years to form combat power for a new gun, and it takes at least fifty years to form an absolute advantage to sweep the peasant army and the Later Jin army!

Fifty years, what a joke? At that time, our little emperors became old emperors. Besides, it is not known whether the Ming Dynasty can last for five years. If you wait for another fifty years, the Ming Dynasty will be destroyed long ago.

Zhu Cijing decided not to wait anymore and recruit all the people first. He could still hold on for a few months by paying the wages. In August, he decided how many flintlock guns would be produced in a month.

After he ordered the verbal order, Wang Gongchang began to recruit workers frantically, and recruited only military households and craftsmen, with a quota of 10,000 yuan. He studied for two months and paid three taels of silver a month. After two months of assessment, he would receive five taels of silver a month.

At the same time, Bi Maokang and Song Yingxing also began to test the new flintlock rifle. The specific performance must be done before they can be known. However, the cost is calculated. Even if each flintlock rifle is equipped with ten medicine rooms and one hundred bullets, it will cost 100 taels of silver, ten thousand is one million taels, and one hundred thousand is ten million taels!

After being an emperor for so long, Zhu Cijing never felt so difficult. He had to be careful in everything he did, otherwise there would be a financial crisis. The emperor was considered unlucky enough to be in this position. No wonder Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian was so sarcastic at that time. He had no money to do anything and was so poor that he couldn't even raise military expenses. Such a life has been going on for more than ten consecutive years, and he has become a man who has not become a lunatic.

Our Emperor Chongzheng, Zhu Cijing, would naturally not be poor to that extent. As long as the Japanese-Kinglong semicolons are spread across the country, they can earn at least 10 or 20 million taels a year. But this is the most difficult time for him. The national treasury is empty and Japanese-Kinglong is still in its infancy. It requires disaster relief, suppression of peasant uprisings, and resistance to the Invasion of the Later Jin Dynasty. It costs money everywhere, and if you are not careful, you may go bankrupt.
Chapter completed!